Hey everyone! Before I start, I just want to reiterate - it’s been an absolute blast playing this game for the past 1 and a half months. It’s been everything I wanted and more, so I want to thank all of you (and the hosts!) for helping to make this experience possible. I also want to congratulate the other finalists on making it here. Drookez and Laurel, it’s been great working with you guys all game.
Oh yeah, also - in case OM didn’t tell you guys already, Drookez’s idol was mine. And I was the one who told him to play it on OM. This is important info for what I explain later!
When coming into this game, I had to examine my last game to see what my downfall was. This is what I concluded my strategy needed to be for this game:
a) Last game, I essentially talked only to my alliance, and only talked to them about game-related things. This game, I needed to up my social game a lot, and make sure I maintained relationships in case I needed people later.
b) Last game, I won too many challenges too early, and got a reputation as a challenge threat. I needed to make sure that didn’t stick with me going forward in this game.
c) Last game, people knew I had numbers. I was basically inseparable with Drookez and Hannah last game, so I had to separate myself enough from Drookez this game that people knew I would never betray him. Also, I had to make sure I had control without being the “leader” of any alliance I was in (or similarly, not the biggest threat left come late game). That would make me the primary target.
I think I played to my strategy almost perfectly:
a) I made sure to PM everyone come merge to at least get some basic conversation. As for maintaining relationships… Do you Fox members remember the ragmatho “blindside”? Well since I wanted to maintain relationships with MK and Shub, I told them two about the vote.
b) I didn’t try on a couple challenges not because I thought I didn’t have a chance, but because I didn’t want to win too many too early on into the merge. During the geoguessr challenge I was doing it for fun, and got a score of 24905 (only 9 below the winning score iirc). When I won the puzzle hunt challenge, I made sure to repeat that I won because it was because it was something I did before (which is definitely partially true, but I didn’t want anyone getting any ideas). I’m kind of happy Laurel beat me in that tiebreaker, because it’s one less challenge I won, haha.
c) Barring the vooper vote, and sort of the blue vote (I’ll get to this later), I was in control of the game. I’m proud that Drookez and I made it as far as we did considering after the first merge vote and RODAN’s quit, the fans-fumblers-favourites ratio was 5-5-2. But yeah, I managed to put myself into a favourable position this whole game regarding votes, and barring vooper (and OM’s vote to fumbler island lol), whoever I wanted to go home actually went home.
And as for separating myself from Drookez, I made sure to push the point that he was close with Cleo as far as I could. I don’t know if you guys noticed, but we actually voted together every vote except the Shub vote, where I was on OM like I said I’d be.
So yeah, that was my strategy this game. I think I have:
-the best strategic game of the F3, as explained before
-I probably take a close second in challenge side of the game (2500 hexagons, winning the puzzle challenge and puzzle hunt, along with a tiebreaker loss in one challenge and losing by 8 mins in F4)
-the best social game (Drookez, I’m sorry but you didn’t really talk to people much, and Laurel, I’ve really grown to like you this game, but you were definitely abrasive and provocative at times in tribal council).
Once again, gg to the other finalists and everyone else too. I’m really excited to answer your guys’ questions, so hit me with ‘em!